In this context, the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) was established, associating all EU Member States; Slovakia is represented by the Ministry of Finance in this body. At the Lisbon summit in the year 2000, representatives of states and governments agreed to make the EU “the most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion, and respect for the environment by 2010”, and adopted the so-called eEurope initiative, replaced by “i2010 initiative” (European Information Society 2010) later in 2005. The EU included information security among its main priorities and has published a number of strategic documents, recommendations, directives and regulations on the protection of personal data and computer software, electronic signature, e-commerce, combating computer crime, spam, etc. 2.3 Legislation and relations to other documents The NSIS is based on the knowledge of the actual situation and experience in the world and in Slovakia, on EU directives, OECD recommendations, key international norms and standards for information security, the Slovak legal framework for the protection of information, and other documents adopted by the Slovak government and the National Council of the Slovak Republic. They mainly involve the following regulations: - Act No. 275/2006 Coll. on Information Systems of Public Administration and on amendments to certain acts, as amended by Act No. 678/2006 Coll.; - Act No. 215/2004 Coll. on the Protection of Classified Information and on amendments to certain acts, as amended; - Act No. 428/2002 Coll. on the Protection of Personal Data as amended; - Act No. 215/2002 on Electronic Signature and on amendments to certain acts, as amended; - Act No. 618/2003 Coll. on Copyright and Rights Related to Copyright as amended; - Act No. 483/2001 Coll. on Banks and on amendments to certain acts, as amended; - Act No. 300/2005 Coll., the Penal Code, as amended; - other laws and implementing regulations listed in Annex 1. , By resolution No. 522 of 13 June 2001, the Slovak government has approved ”Information Society Policy in the Slovak Republic” thus officially joining the eEurope+ initiative. In accordance with the aforementioned government resolution draft “Strategy and Action Plan for the Development of the Information Society” was prepared and approved by the government resolution No. 43 of 21 January 2004. Convention on Cybercrime CETS 185/2001, issued by the Council of Europe, was ratified and incorporated into the Slovak Penal Code; Directive No 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on a Community framework for electronic signatures was transposed under the Act on Electronic Signature; and Directive No 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data was transposed under the Act on Personal Data Protection. Various decisions and directives issued by the Council of Europe are also currently valid in the area of information security. 5

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